Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60

The Social Implications of Sugar: Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774

“…If they worked outside the plantation economy, such as working in the service economy in the major town of Kingston, they needed high wages to survive. Those who did not get high wages were supported by a relatively generous welfare system that channeled money to the white poor (but not to free people of color, let alone enslaved people) (Greene, 2016, 184-94;Burnard, 2013;Burnard, 1999;Walker, 2014).…”

Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges

“…Colonial capitalism afforded opportunities for women also to profit from chattel slavery despite English laws on coverture. 39 Marie Grace Brown looks at female consumer agency on a very different scale than Walker's slave-holders. Brown examines tobes -long rectangular cloths (similar to South Asian saris) -that were the traditional outerwear of Sudanese women.…”